The tenor is a fan of his hometown football club. They have commissioned a new song for the club’s 125th anniversary and he’s recorded it with crowd and orchestra. Harry Kane will never get his […]
It’s always intrigued me why, if Schubert was such a fine composer of songs (and he was), why don’t we hear his operas? There are quite a few, after all, so why not start with […]
The second act of Verdi’s breathrough opera opened with two bangs at the Arena di Verona. The first was a production effect. The second was a thunderbolt from heaven. The show’s opening night was abandoned. […]